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Post by Crowdan on Jan 25, 2009 14:18:26 GMT -5
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Post by Skyroniter on Jan 25, 2009 16:05:30 GMT -5
I'd seen it. Very funny!
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Jan 25, 2009 16:06:12 GMT -5
There was a thread about this ages ago but I can't find it.
Absolutely hilarious video. It would be nice if he were to do more with it.
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Post by ilmatto on Jan 25, 2009 21:52:32 GMT -5
I'd like to see Riding with Death redone using Jollyfilter.
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Post by eimag on Jan 25, 2009 23:51:32 GMT -5
I'd like to see Riding with Death redone using Jollyfilter. Just wanted to say, i nearly spit out the water i was drinking when i read your post. Maybe then we could see how Robert Denby gets to be so darn elusive!
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Post by mrmeadows on Jan 26, 2009 15:19:51 GMT -5
This is beyond brilliant. I would love to see this idea fully realized, but can see where adding these kind of effects to a 90 minute movie every week could get pricey.
One of the comments over at YouTube theorized that the poor box office performance of "Kung Pow! Enter the Fist" may have scared the network away from developing this further. I've never seen "Kung Pow!", but please tell me it's nothing like this. (I remember the trailer looked lame.)
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Jan 26, 2009 15:35:10 GMT -5
I enjoyed Kung Pow! but then I'm intensely stupid so I don't know if that's a recommendation.
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Post by mrmeadows on Jan 26, 2009 15:44:16 GMT -5
Hey Trumpy, I don't mean to judge your or anyone's opinion of "Kung Pow!". I'm only basing my opinion of it on the trailer, not the whole movie. I realize trailers are often not representative of how good or bad a movie is.
My main concern is that the movie really is similar to what Joel has done with Jollyfilter, because if it is then that's too bad. (In that it has already been done by someone else.)
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Jan 26, 2009 16:11:15 GMT -5
Hey Trumpy, I don't mean to judge your or anyone's opinion of "Kung Pow!". I'm only basing my opinion of it on the trailer, not the whole movie. I realize trailers are often not representative of how good or bad a movie is. My main concern is that the movie really is similar to what Joel has done with Jollyfilter, because if it is then that's too bad. (In that it has already been done by someone else.) I saw the last half of Kung Pow! on cable. The idea of it is similar to Steve Martin's Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid: modern actor inserts himself into old movie(s). Some of it I found funny, some of it intensely stupid (like the part when he fought the cow). But it's a good point--the average Hollywood exec won't touch a project that even remotely resembles some other failed project. Just like they're all over anything that faintly resembles (or outright rips off) a successful one.
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Jan 26, 2009 19:07:02 GMT -5
Hey Trumpy, I don't mean to judge your or anyone's opinion of "Kung Pow!". I'm only basing my opinion of it on the trailer, not the whole movie. I realize trailers are often not representative of how good or bad a movie is. My main concern is that the movie really is similar to what Joel has done with Jollyfilter, because if it is then that's too bad. (In that it has already been done by someone else.) It's so damn hard to convey tone on these dread machines! Mocking myself there mrmeadows! Kung Pow's good dumb fun and your right it is similar in a way to the Jollyfilter video, in the sense of how the process was done. And Donna Lady's right, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is probably Kung Pow's closest relative in that respect. it would be interesting to find out if Kung Pow really did have a baring on Jollyfilter or if it just ended up as an aborted project for some other reason. Personally I think that it would be best suited to the video length in the test, taking a part of the movie instead of doing a whole one, but looks like we'll never know!
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Post by mrmeadows on Jan 26, 2009 19:24:51 GMT -5
Yeah, it's hard to imagine how engaging the entire movie of "Rollercoaster" would be with the Jolly Filter stuff. Would it sustain for 90 minutes, or get old? Also, it kind of helps to see the scene WITHOUT the Jolly Filter and then see it with. It was funny to take such a slow, plodding beginning to a movie (I swear, I thought it would never end), and turn it into something you wished would go on longer. Part of the humor was in that contrast.
Seems like it's funny as a YouTube bit, but not sure where Joel would have taken it as a TV series. Maybe that would be a good question for the next "25 Questions with Joel" installment on SN...
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Jan 26, 2009 21:01:35 GMT -5
Yeah, it's hard to imagine how engaging the entire movie of "Rollercoaster" would be with the Jolly Filter stuff. Would it sustain for 90 minutes, or get old? Also, it kind of helps to see the scene WITHOUT the Jolly Filter and then see it with. It was funny to take such a slow, plodding beginning to a movie (I swear, I thought it would never end), and turn it into something you wished would go on longer. Part of the humor was in that contrast. Seems like it's funny as a YouTube bit, but not sure where Joel would have taken it as a TV series. Maybe that would be a good question for the next "25 Questions with Joel" installment on SN... Yeah, it seems like it would make a good recurring host segment or something of that nature.
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Post by mrmeadows on Jan 26, 2009 21:27:28 GMT -5
How long ago did this clip surface? The info box says that Joel and Jim created it in 2000, but this YouTube posting is dated July, 2008. And there's an interview with Joel from Nov. 2007 here where he mentions that they are still shopping the Jolly Filter concept around: www.starwars.com/community/news/rocks/f20071109/index.htmlNov. 2007 wasn't that long ago. Does this project still have signs of life?
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Post by hugo on Feb 16, 2009 15:14:12 GMT -5
I talked to Joel about the Jollyfilter at last year's comic-con, and I recall that it was pretty new at the time, so July 2008 sounds about right. He basically explained exactly what you might expect: it was an experiment, it worked out nicely, but it was very time consuming and prohibitively expensive (at least as far as making it a series or a full-length feature)
(wow...I used a lot of words beginning with "ex" in that sentence...how exquisite!)
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Post by mrmeadows on Aug 31, 2009 11:44:58 GMT -5
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